Sunday, March 7, 2004

All-Star Entertainment Corp. is almost ready to get a building permit to build a 14-screen theater in Goldsboro. But first it must pay $19,000 to a state environmental fund for possible potential increases in nitrogen runoff caused by the...

Georgia Tanner, popular News-Argus columnist for almost half a century, died Friday at her home in Goldsboro. She was the widow of Hal H. Tanner Sr., publisher of the News-Argus from 1953 until 1983, and the mother of the present...

Wayne County Republicans took aim Saturday at N.C. Sen. John Kerr, County Commissioner Atlas Price and Gov. Mike Easley in this fall's elections. But speakers at the annual GOP convention reserved their harshest words for the issue of gay...

Two Goldsboro natives will be inducted into the N.C. Broadcasters Hall of Fame next month. Carl Kasell, broadcaster for National Public Radio, and Vassie Balkcum, former president of WGBR radio station, are among new members who will be inducted on...

WALLACE -- Hundreds flocked to the second annual Duplin County Business and Merchants Expo this weekend. Early arrivers found it easier to find a parking space at Wallace's New Duplin Tobacco Warehouse Friday. The exposition started Friday afternoon with...

MOUNT OLIVE -- The town's Board of Adjustments will hear a request for a conditional use permit to erect three radio transmission towers about a mile from the airport runway. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday...

J. Nelson Kornegay, a fixture in Wayne County government for decades and a magistrate for the last 11 years, was recognized Friday for his devotion to his family and his church and his dedication as a public servant. The...

'Mockingbird' trivia Persistence paid off for Lynn Rabhan of Trappers Run Drive. She had entered the "Wayne County Reads" trivia context every week. Friday she won. Last week's question was, what was Mary Badham's Academy Award-nominated role in "To Kill...